Quotes by Schopenhauer

“The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped.”

“With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.”

“Money is human happiness in the abstract.”

“Each day is a little life every waking and rising a little birth every fresh morning a little youth every going to rest and sleep a little death.”

“Do not shorten the morning by getting up late look upon it as the quintessence of life and to a certain extent sacred.”

“A man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.”

“(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects whether moral or intellectual shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.”

“Time is that in which all things pass away.”

“Pride is the direct appreciation of oneself.”

“To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.”

“Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence with the certainty of losing it at last.”

“Reason deserves to be called a prophet for in showing up the consequence and effect of our actions in the present does it not tell us what the future will be?”

“Pride ... is the direct appreciation of oneself.”

“Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes ennui of the higher ones.”

“The will is the strong blind man who carries on his shoulders the lame man who can see.”

“It is in trifles and when he is off his guard that a man best shows his character.”

“Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed in the second it is opposed in the third it is regarded as self-evident.”

“The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.”

“Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.”

“The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men ... and why on the contrary they are inferior to men as regards justice and less h...”